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TIIE ADVANCE. AUlIngtos, a a. z ..~ __ i Friday, December 5 , i»79,- STANDARD WEIGHTS. An Act to fix by law the weight of a bushel of the and commodities hereinafter (toned: See. 1. Be it enacted by the Assettby of tiie State of Georgia, that the iegai weight of the following cles and commodities per bushel shall he as follows: Wheat................ 60 Shelled corn............ 56 Corn In the ear......... J’eas................... 60 life .................... 56 Oats................,. fcC Barley................. ^4 Irish potatoes........... 60 Sweet potatoes ......... 55 While beans............ 60 Clover seed ............ ^ Timothy seed........... 56 Flax seed............... ^ Hemp seed........ *.... ^ Cotton seed............ Buckwheat............. ..52 Blue grass seed......... 14 Dried peaches (unpeeled) 33 Dried peaches (peeled) .. 38 Dried apples............ 24 Onions................. r ' 7 Slone coal,............. 80 Unslacked lime......... 86 Turnips............... 55 Cofa meal.............. 48 Wheat bran...... ...... Ground peas............ 25 Plastering hair......... 8 Section 2 rcjieals all conflicting law’s. Approved February 20tb, 1875. BO ME- AND FARM. GObn Smut.—T here is no doubt of the hurtful character of eotft sfffttf, and cattle should be prevented from devouring stalks affected with it.— Where the cattle are worth more than the labor of saving them, this may be done by throwing out smutty stalks by themselves and burning them. Horses. —The seasou is too far ad¬ vanced for turning horses out at night. A ddlff rain coming on suddenly may do dlucli harm. If horses are caught in the rain and thoroughly drenched, it will he well to rub them dry and nlanket them as soon as they reneh home. But the blankdts should never Me put on until the horses are thor¬ oughly (Jpy._____________ Sheep.— Dong wool sheep are easily ebilled by a cokl rain that would not rtterible a Southdown or Merino.— Long-wools therefore, require protec¬ tion from rain storms, although the weather may not bo very cold. An open shed in the field may he sufficient If brought into Hie yards at night, sheep should riot be shut up; they re quire abundant ventilation, and can not be crowded with impunity in close quarters. Where ticks abound, or scab exist, use tiie Cresylic or other effective dip. Coarse fodder, bard and unnutri- tious,' is the cause of much disease among stock at tbis seasou. If there is no pasture available but tiie wood or a swamp, the animals condemned to such bard fare should get a cheap food. A cheap, nutritious and health¬ ful food may bo made by mixiug 100 pounds cotton seed meal and 200 of oats; add two pounds of Epsom' saltfc and mix thoroughly. Two pounds a day or lid* mixture will be found of remarkable benefit when fed under the above circumstances. The value of everything a farmer buys will probably increase considera¬ bly before long, if the increase has not atteady begun. Whether agricultural products advance ib proportion” of a rigid economy in expenditures will be prudent. The experience of the past few years ought not to be soon forgotten. Every tool, implement, machine or appliance about the prem¬ ises should be used and preserved with care; and before anything is purchased it may well be if it cannot be produced or madb atf home. Then the money may be doubly saved, for the needed article may be bad without much cost;, and the money it would have required will be Btill in the pocket. A good woman, after the death of lier husband, had married the brother of the doparted. 1 She preserved! nev¬ ertheless, in her dining-room, a pic¬ ture of her first 1 spouse. Ouo day a guest at the tablfe, noticing the por¬ trait, asked her if it was a member of hfer family. “Yes,” replied the wdy, frankly, “it is therpBrttwiPof ifly poor bretber-iii-law.’’ -——— MeGorquodale Liquors. <fc Co., keep every **aud of Good It FOR Hit AN DMA." A bit of a girl, not more than years old, wearing a faded old hat, and her calico apron fall of rents and entlSttsd the fftfcUfffiCe yesterday With an unstamped letter in her liand and said to the first person she met: “Say, I’ve writ a long letter to tny grandma, and I want to know if is tflfe frtace t(f feave ft V “Yes, this is the place,' 1 he ed,” but yon must put a stamp on “Won’t they carry a little girl’s ter to her grandma for nothing ?” asked. “I guess not." “Then I don’t know what to do, and I ana awful sorry, for I told her I had a new doll baby, mtd that my was dead, and that ma was awful and that the IRtle girl who used play with me was dead. If send my letter, I’ll pay just as soon tnerlcim.” “I’ll put on a stamp for you,” said the gentleman as be took the letter. “Will you ? Now that's real good. Mebbe I’ll be rich and you’ll be 3 oroe day, and I know I'll lend you and coffe and whatever you want. your grandma dead ?’’ “Yes.” “That’s too Lad I Did she have scarlet rash of the measles *T hardly think so. Here—I’m afraid your letter won’t go.” “Oh, yes it will, for I got a big to dftect it and he writ just as slow and big as could. ♦ » It was directed: “Fof Grandma- Ohio,’’ and almost every other was a capital. The gentleman shook his head, and the child cried'out: “See bow big the writing is ! It’ll go straight to grandma, aod she’ll tickled to death to hear from me ! I was roore’n a whole week writing it, and at the end it says: ‘I’d give any. Ob, I know it’ll go!’’ He looked into her child-face and could say nothing to crush the hopes she bad cherished and the work she bad accomplished. “It may reach her,’’ he said as he posted it. “And she’ll write back and tell me if any oi her cats are dead, and if the hens have got any more chickens, and if any more boys have fallen into the mill pond I Just think of me writing to my grandma way off, and grandma Writing buck and putting a regular stamp on the letter I I can’t wait, for I know I’ll feel awful big over the other girls! Well, good-bye—I’ll pay yon just as soon as ever I can, and I bope to die H I don’t V—Detroit Free Press. THE BUTCHER WHO LOST. A hump shouldered old man, follow¬ ed by a dog which seemed to have Pasted- fot a year past,entered a Wood¬ ward' aV'Chilb btiftcbe¥-sht>p' the other day and made some inquiries about the price of smoked hams. The butch- er saw the dog, of course, and whoev- er saw a butcher who didn't want to know all about a dog 7 “Is that a good coon dog ?” asked the butcher as he patted the shy canine on the head. “Ofi, no—he's a trick dog," answer¬ ed the owner. “Is, eh ? what tricks can he do ?’ “Oh, a dozen or two. He has one very peculiar trick, though. Would you litre to see him do it ?” “I vfd’JlYt'hdt. What is it V The man directed the Ihttclier to put a pound of nice beafsteak on a sheet of clean brown paper and place the whole on the dbotstep: He' then said to liis dog, which had watched matters very keenly: “Now, Cato, I am about to call on you to perform a trick. You have never gone back on me jtet', add Tliave perfeWtf confidence in you now. Cato, do yon see that meat V’’ Cato saw it He walked over to it, seized it in bis mouth, and as he went up the street it was bad to tell dog from dust. "Hum I yes muttered tiie butch¬ er;-“do you*call'that a trick f*’ “J do,’’ confidently replied the man. “Well) it’s a titrated mean one.” “Just so—just so,” replied the man. “You-couldn’t expect such a dog afi' that’ tb' be around playing tricks on a guitar or harp, could you ? I'll see you later about the hams.”— Detroit Fret Press. She certainly had a pretty foot, but after all it didn't make half so much impression on him as the old man’s. You will and 1 afitry iter the very best Imported 1 Brandies, Whiskies and Wines for medicinal'ptftposes. A. P. Duke. To makebomi! happy, subscriber fof’ the AbvAKofc—- tS-per annum- WHY HE KISSED HER AND Why she wept. A lady friend lias transmitted to ns the following “Gpfoion of the Tress’ >n ah parts of the world, upon the subject of the text which tells you that J“C -b kissed Rachel and lifted up his Toicft nn< * wept: -v If Eachel was a pretty girl, and kept ber face clean, we can’t see what Jacob bad (o cry about-Daily Tel^dpll. H” w do you know but that she tapped his face for him.—Ladies Trea¬ srtry. Weeping is not nuffetjuently pro- duced by extreme pleasure, joy, hap ness; it might have been so in Jacob’s case.— Hardwickc's City Gossip. The cause of Jacob’s weeping was the refusal of Rachel to allow him to kiss her again,— Nonconformist- It is our opinion that Jacob Wept because he had not kissed Rachel be¬ fore, and he wept for the time he had lost.— The City Press. The fellow wept, because the girl did not kiss’ him .—Pall Mall Gazette. Jacob wept because Rachel told him to “do it twice more,” and he was afraid to.—Methodist Recorder. Jacob cried because Rachel thfeat- ened to tell her mamma. —Sunday Ga¬ zette. He wept Lbcunao there was only one Rachel to kiss. —Ctcrkcuwell New s, England. Ho wept for joy because it tasted so good.— Jewish CU'toiiieXO. He thought it was fast color, and wept to find the paint come off.— Fine Art Gazette. We reckon Jacob cried because Rachel had beoD eating onions.— British Standard, Eng; Our own opinion is that Jacob wept because he found after all it was not half what it was cracked up to be.— New Zealand Famine tier. A mistake—not his eyes but his mouth watered.— The Ladies Chrom¬ dU. He remembered lie was Ire? Tronic- and recollected what the Prayer Book says. — Church Journal. He was a fool and did not know what was good for Lira.— Englishwo¬ man's Adviser. He knew there was a time to weep —it had come, and lie dare not put it off. — Methodist News. He thought she might have a big brother. — Sporting Ch/onicle. Because there was no time for an¬ other.— Express'. When he lifted up his voice he toriiiaTt was heavy, and could not get it up so high as he expected.-— Musical- , Notes. He tried to impose on her feelings, because he wanted her to lend him five shillings.— Baptist Guide. Amen to all. Beneath the starry vault or golden sun is there aught in nature or in art equal to 1 the failure and intense deliciousness of the first kiss? I answer verily, No. Jake had kissed said 1 maiden before, and’ never his first realization of crowding a life’s deliciousness in these moments i overcame liim,> and he wept for joy.— Hornsey Hornet. He wept because bo was cohscioilk of having lied and stolen Esau’s birth¬ right, and was a fugitive, and knew also that lie was a fraud on Rachel. Conscience will do its work.— Savan¬ nah Recorder. A WO&DERUL SCENE. An unusual scene for Europe,that of the sun not setting,but sbiningthrough whole night, is to lie witnessed from the summit of Mount Avnx, in Finland, near Torrioe, at Sixty-six degrees latitude. Every year, on June 23, a multitude of people of different nations visit that mountain to witness the interesting spectacle. According to the reports of the Finn Journals this year there were on Mount Avax about three hundred travellers. Three of these were Englishmen, two French¬ men one was a Russian. There were several Germans, Danes and Swedes, and the rest were Finns. The Gov- ennent of Finland is now erecting ou Mount Avax a hotel for the accom¬ modation of travelers. W. T. SAXON is stUl al hireftd atanfi’^lth sf Ml liite’o'f Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, CONFECTIONERIES, &c., Which he will sel! as cheap as the cheapest LAGER BEER on draught and in bottles. It want to feet good give him a call. He solicits is thankful continuance for past'Hy’ors, the and earnest- prom¬ lv a or same, ising to do all in his power to merit your patronage. OCtl7-ly SUBSCRIBE FOR TEE ADVANCE ! A live weekly devoted to the interest of Arlington, Calhoun Co., -AND-- THE WHOLE OF S. W. GEORGIA o The Advanl-e will be published EVERY FRIDAY arid will' be up with the times in re¬ gard to all the leading news of thfeduy, botli local and general, and, in fact, a Pi ft ST Class Family Newspaper in every respect. 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